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Herndon had been gone from Borlaam for a year, before this day. A year before -- the seventeenth of the reign of the Seigneur Krellig -- a band of looters had roared through his home village in Zonnigog, destroying and killing. It had been a high score for the Herndon family -- his father and mother killed in the first sally, his young brother stolen as a slave, his sister raped and ultimately put to death.
The village had been burned. And only Barr Herndon had escaped, taking with him twenty thousand stellors of his family's fortune and killing eight of the Seigneur's best men before departing.